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Title: MAME32, DirectX & SDL
Post by: IG-88 on May 30, 2006, 08:31:56 pm

Does MAME32 require DirectX under win32 and if so does it use SDL?

Title: Re: MAME32, DirectX & SDL
Post by: lokki on May 30, 2006, 08:53:47 pm

Yes to DirectX and No to SDL

Title: Re: MAME32, DirectX & SDL
Post by: IG-88 on June 02, 2006, 04:06:53 pm

Is that so for all previoius versions or just the latest ones? ie: Was that so for say v.36?

Title: Re: MAME32, DirectX & SDL
Post by: Pi on June 02, 2006, 05:49:25 pm

MAME never used SDL, although someone said that he had a working SDL version of MAME. IIRC, MAME always used DirectX since it changed from DOS to Windows as main development platform. However, I don't know if the old MAME32 used DirectX before the core changed to Windows.

Title: Re: MAME32, DirectX & SDL
Post by: lokki on June 02, 2006, 10:57:09 pm

I think mame 36 used directX. Some of the mame devs have a build of mame using SDL (under Linux) but I don't think anything has ever been released publicly.

Title: Re: MAME32, DirectX & SDL
Post by: Pi on June 03, 2006, 02:48:23 am

Yes, a couple of devs have an SDLMAME. I think it would be good for the official MAME to use the SDL interface, and then retain the D3D one for the effects in the Windows version. But, is it SDL compatible with MAME's license nowadays?

Title: Re: MAME32, DirectX & SDL
Post by: Cananas on June 03, 2006, 06:27:55 am

I think AdvanceMame can use SDL for Windows.

Title: Re: MAME32, DirectX & SDL
Post by: IG-88 on June 03, 2006, 06:37:33 am

Quote from: Pi on June 03, 2006, 02:48:23 am

Yes, a couple of devs have an SDLMAME.

Can you get a copy of that for me? The reason I want one is for a guy who is trying to get it to work in ReactOS.

Title: Re: MAME32, DirectX & SDL
Post by: Pi on June 03, 2006, 07:27:05 am

I can't. They said they have it and eventually might release it, but such release hasn't happened yet, AFAIK.

Title: Re: MAME32, DirectX & SDL
Post by: lokki on June 03, 2006, 03:55:18 pm

You might want to read this thread at mame.net
(the whole thread is interesting not just the message I link)

http://www.mame.net/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/showpost.pl?Board=mamegeneral&Number=193850&page=&view=&mode=threaded&sb=#Post193850

Good Luck

Title: Re: MAME32, DirectX & SDL
Post by: Cananas on June 04, 2006, 08:26:56 am

Or read this:
http://rbelmont.mameworld.info/?p=111 (http://rbelmont.mameworld.info/?p=111)

Title: Re: MAME32, DirectX & SDL
Post by: Pi on June 04, 2006, 09:42:08 am

Wow, released the same day I said it wasn't released yet... What a coincidence.

Title: Re: MAME32, DirectX & SDL
Post by: u_rebelscum on June 05, 2006, 02:47:47 pm

Quote from: lokki on June 02, 2006, 10:57:09 pm

I think mame 36 used directX.

FWIW, official mame went directX when it went windows at 0.37b15 (May 2001). 

AFAIK, the Mame32 derivative was directX from when it started in 1997 (I think version 0.26, anyone?)

(edited possible first mame32 version)